MONTREAL, June 1, 1914 (UP) -- Government investigation of the loss of 1,032 lives when the Canadian Pacific liner Empress of Ireland was rammed and sunk by the collier Storstad started here today.

And now a page from our "Sunday Morning" Almanac: May 29th, 1914, 102 years ago today ... the day of a largely overlooked maritime calamity. For it was in the pre-dawn hours of that day that the liner ...

The author of 2001's Deep Descent recounts the sinking of the Canadian ocean liner Empress of Ireland and documents its subsequent romantic history as a lure for scuba divers in this well-researched ...

The number of lives lost following the sinking of the Empress of Ireland in the Saint Lawrence River is now officially put at 1,021, with 446 passengers having been rescued from the ship. The ship ...

LONDON, May 29, 1914 (UP)-The offices of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company here today were besieged by crowds of weeping mean and women, relatives and friends of the crew of the Empress of Ireland, ...

It was a massive shipping tragedy with major Merseyside connections, and one which was overlooked for decades – but the “forgotten” Empress of Ireland will be remembered in Liverpool on the centenary ...

Caroline Mullins flipped through some of the papers discovered in her great uncle Albert's bag on the Empress of Ireland. He died when the ship sank in 1914. (Société d'histoire du Bas-Canada - image ...

The aftermath of the tragic sinking of the Empress of Ireland continues with the confirmed loss of a family of nine from Glasgow. These were Wm. Russell and his two daughters Sarah and Minnie, the ...

When the Titanic sank in 1912, shockwaves were sent across the planet — but when a similarly deadly tragedy happened just two years later, it sailed into obscurity. In 1914, on its 96th journey, the ...